21 November 2025: Yesterday, Flow Batteries Europe hosted a webinar on the key role that flow batteries can play in accelerating the deplyment of data centres and tackle major challenges such as AI-induced power volatility. Speakers presented to more than 200 participants their insights on how flow batteries are already shaping the future of safer, more easily deployable, and longer-lived cost-competitive data centres.
🔋 Speakers & Key Highlights
Parag Mehresh, Director of Technical Sales, Vertiv
• Presented the key trends of the data centres world, highlighting the need for energy systems that scale easily, ride through disturbances, and support continuous cooling and compute. Flow batteries, he noted, fit naturally into this future, as they can deliver stable, secure, always-on power in an increasingly power-hungry AI era.
Jon Parrella, CEO, TerraFlow Energy
• Explained why high volatility caused by AI workloads is becoming a major issue with catastrophic consequences not only for data centres, but for the entire energy system, and how TerraFlow’s 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄-𝗯𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 architecture turns 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀.
• Emphasized that 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗯𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 are already 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆, and they have been for a long time; 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳, especially where it shows viable and competitive where Li-ion falls short.
Matt Walz, CCO, Invinity Energy Systems
• Shared insights on how AI is shifting eergy from an off-site to a on-site challenge for data centres, and how flow batteries, being non-flammable and factory-built, enable energy production and storage directly within or close to the data centre.
Tristan A. Bannon, CCO, CellCube
• Stressed that flow batteries can turn intermittent renewable energy like solar PV into reliable base load for data centres, and that their modular, containerized deisgn allows rapid deployment, easy scaability, and flexible siting, while also ensuring long lifetimes and high cycle durability, and predictable performance.
💬 Discussion takeaways
Speakers agreed that flow batteries can accelerate data centre deployment, not just by addressing their complex challenges, but by doing so more safely, competitively, and innovatively than other storage solutions.
View the webinar recording 👉at this link
